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Keeping the Peace: On Patrol in Lebanon
by Max Easterman

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Peacekeeping is perhaps the United Nations' most complicated and expensive activity. About 51,000 military personnel from 94 different countries are now serving in more than a dozen separate UN peacekeeping operations under way worldwide. The mission of these blue-helmeted troops has evolved and become more complex over the past decade. Are they getting the job done?

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Official United Nations peacekeeping site

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon site

Biography of Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations